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For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty,
all-powerful money gives them all.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much.
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Even the good Homer is sometimes caught napping.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
The price never stood in the way of her inclination.
The price never stood in the way of her inclination.
He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
He that tells a secret is anothers servant.